STATE  OF  NEW-YORK. 


No.  78. 


IN  ASSEMBLY, 

February  13,  1845. 


MESSAGE 

From  the  Governor,  transmitting  Carroll  and  Cook's 

Contract. 

Executive  Chamber,  ) 
Albany,  13th  February,  1845.  > 

TO  THE  ASSEMBLY. 

In  compliance  with  the  resolution  of  the  honorable  the  Assembly,  of 
the  12th  instant,  requesting  me  to  furnish  that  house  with  "  a  copy  of 
the  contract  with  Messrs.  Carroll  &  Cook,  for  the  printing  and  bind- 
ing of  the  Geological  Survey  of  the  State,"  I  have  the  honor  to  trans- 
mit a  copy  of  a  contract,  which  I  find  was  deposited  in  the  office  of 
the  Comptroller,  by  the  late  Governor,  and  which  I  suppose  to  be  the 
contract,  a  copy  of  which  is  called  for  by  the  resolution. 

SILAS  WRIGHT. 


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CONTRACT 


Of  Carroll  &  Cook  with  the  Governor  to  print  the 
Natural  History  of  the  State  of  New- York. 

Articles  of  agreement  made  this  twenty-fourth  day  of  April,  1843,  be- 
tween the  people  of  the  State  of  New-York,  by  William  C.  Bouck, 
Governor,  pursuant  to  an  act  entitled  "  An  act  in  relation  to  the 
Natural  History  of  New- York,"  passed  April  8th,  1843,  of  the  first 
part,  and  Thomas  B.  Carroll  and  Alanson  Cook,  printers  to  the  As- 
sembly, of  the  second  part,  witnesseth — 

That  the  said  parties  of  the  second  part  hereby  covenant  and  en- 
gage to  publish  and  print  all  that  which  remains  to  be  done  to  com- 
plete all  the  volumes  of  the  Natural  History  of  the  State  of  New- 
York,  and  also  to  bind  the  said  volumes  ;  the  said  printing  and  bind- 
ing is  in  all  respects  to  be  as  well  executed  and  of  as  good  paper  as 
the  first  volume  of  said  History  already  printed. 

The  said  parties  of  the  second  part  are  to  receive  from  the  treasury, 
for  said  printing  and  binding,  the  following  prices,  to  wit : 

For  the  composition  of  every  one  thousand  ems,  forty-five  cents. 
For  every  ream  of  paper  necessarily  used,  at  the  rate  of  five  dollars 
per  ream. 

For  the  press  work,  at  the  rate  of  one  dollar  for  every  white  token. 
For  pressing  the  sheets,  at  the  rate  of  fifty  cents  for  every  ream. 
For  folding,  at  the  rate  of  forty  cents  for  every  ream. 
For  binding,  at  the  rate  of  sixty-five  cents  per  volume. 

The  foregoing  prices  are  to  include  the  expense  of  furnishing  all 
the  materials,  labelling  the  volumes,  in  pressing  on  the  outer  side  of 
the  covers  the  appropriate  illustrations,  and  the  performance  of  every 
kind  of  labor  and  every  necessary  expense  to  a  perfect  completion  of 


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the  said  printing  and  binding,  in  all  respects,  excepting,  however,  if 
there  should  be  any  rule  work,  as  it  is  technically  called,  that  is,  co- 
lumns of  matter  that  require  to  be  justified,  an  additional  allowance  of 
twenty  cents  for  every  one  thousand  ems  of  such  work  is  to  be  paid. 

The  said  volumes  are  to  be  of  the  same  size  as  those  now  printed, 
and  every  part  of  the  work  comprised  in  this  contract  shall  be  done  in 
such  manner,  and  at  such  time  as  shall  be  required  by,  and  approved 
of,  by  the  person  administering  the  government  of  this  State,  on 
whose  certificate  the  Treasurer  will  be  required  to  pay  out  of  any  mo- 
neys in  the  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  the  sum  to  which  the 
said  parties  of  the  second  part  shall  be  entitled  under  this  contract, 
and  as  fast  as  each  volume  shall  be  completed,  approved  of  by  the 
Governor,  and  deposited  in  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State. 

In  witness  whereof,  the  parties  have  hereunto  subscribed  their  names, 
the  day  and  year  first  above  written. 

WM.  C.  BOUCK, 
THOS.  B.  CARROLL, 
ALANSON  COOK. 


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